I am +1 on this Costin, could you just patch the charter and then we vote on it? I would prefer to change the wording to use anything besides PMC though. IMO.
Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Costin Manolache [mailto:cmanolache@;yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Proposal: httpd-like PMC organisation > > > We already have a line in our charter about having a jakarta-commons > specific PMC. Right now it is modeled after jakarta, with 3 > members. > > I would like to propose changing this number to include more > people - I think the right solution is more closer to what > httpd and apr projects are doing, where the PMC is composed > of most active commiters. > > My proposal is to modify the charter so that a > jakarta-commons PMC is composed of all active commiters. This > will be volunteer-based, in the sense that any active > commiter who wants to become part of the PMC will announce > his willingness to participate. > > Questions: > - should we vote on the volunteering offer ? What is httpd doing ? > - Should we impose a 2-3 month wait period for new commiters ? ) > - should the pmc have a separate mail list ? ( I personally > don't think so - but that's how other pmcs are organised ) > > The commons PMC members will split the task of monitoring the > files. All decisions will continue to be taken by majority > vote of all jakarta-commons commiters. > > Not that this is not a proposal to form a top-level project - > just to better organise ourself. Jakarta-commons is IMO at > the core of jakarta - with the most diverse set of commiters > from almost all jakarta projects. Any major issue will be > forwarded to the Jakarta PMC. > > > -- > Costin > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
